Friday, January 1, 2010
INTRODUCTION
Hello I started this blog to share some of the beautiful and creative things that can be made from recycling wood.
I intend to post pictures of some of the many beautiful things that can be made from wood that no one wants anymore.
I hope I can inspire you to initiate similar endeavors. Curb Wood Art is a registered trademark of Thomas Paul Murphy
Best of luck.
Thomas Paul Murphy

Monday, March 19, 2012

I was visiting my sister three weeks ago and she asked if I would make her a table to go around her dog cage. She is always setting things on it and wanted to protect the cage. When I asked her how much she wanted it to hold she told me 200 pounds.

A few days later I drove past some discarded dining room table slats. The laminate on top had water damage. Carefully I stripped the laminate off and designed and hand crafted a leg base for this table. I think you will agree that it is very beautiful?

I reinforced the top with strand board and structurally located supports. The legs are made from cedar two by fours.

The trim pieces are also from Curb Wood.

Here is how the piece fits over the Dog Cage.

Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2012 Thomas Paul Murphy

Originally published on 03 17 2012 at:WWW.themilwaukeeandwisconsinnews.blogspot.com

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Welcome to my Blogs. My name is Thomas Murphy and I love the forest and wildlife areas of Wisconsin and would like to share my thoughts and the pictures I have taken of the natural areas of Wisconsin.
Come share in my collection of what I feel to some of the finest scenes and images of the forests, lakes, rivers and marshes that Wisconsin has to offer. I like to go to pristine and secluded areas where nature resides quietly and I feel the resulting “lost” images are profoundly unique.
I am usually “in the moment” when I take these pictures. When I say in the moment I mean a sense of excitement often precedes what my eye captures through the camera. I never stage these shots but seem to be in the right place and time when I shoot them.
And when I transfer them from my camera and view them on my computer screen I realize a sense of surrealism that resonates with me yet again to the time they were taken and exemplify the beauty of nature.
Please peruse my sites and experience the beauty of being there as I did.
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